4.1 Particle System
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Welcome to Chapter 4 of The Nature of Code: Particle Systems! I begin by coding a simple particle system in p5.js. I convert the Mover class into a Particle class, add a lifetime property, and organize a collection of particles into an array.
William T. Reeves' article on modeling fuzzy objects like fire, clouds, and water with particle systems
Coding Challenge to make a smoke effect particle system
Nature of Code video on applying gravity and wind to a mover object
Code! Programming with p5.js video on using ES6 classes and for loops to make an array of objects
July 4th themed Coding Challenge to build a fireworks simulation in p5.js and Processing
Coding Train video on the filter() function in JavaScript
Code! Programming with p5.js video on removing objects from arrays